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The Lightphone Takes Your Choices Away...to Give You More Freedom (with Joe Hollier)

As Americans come to grips with phone addiction — and juries start punishing the companies that push it — the Lightphone is selling you less, for $299. I spoke with its co-creator.

Joe Hollier was 24 when he started building a phone designed to do almost nothing. Calls. Texts. Alarm. Music, maybe. Directions if you needed them. That was the list. The Light Phone launched on Kickstarter in 2015 to a polarizing reaction: why would you pay for a phone that does less on purpose?

Eleven years later, Hollier doesn’t have to answer that q…

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